[numberonepal]

we keep seeing that tobacco smoking and chocolate protect against covid!

I know you jest, but about 3 or 4 months into the Coof lies some data surfaced that smokers were not getting it in a statistically significant way. The data was good because it came from China, France, Germany and the US where a large portion of the population are smokers. Quickly after that the smoker data stopped being gathered.

The data was analyzed by the French. Here's the study, but it's in French.

The consistent low rate of #tobacco smokers among patients with #coronavirus in China is now duplicated in the U.S. by CDC:
Among 7,162 corona patients with medical records 6,901 were never-smokers (96.3%), 165 ex-smokers (2.3%), and only 96 smokers (1.3%)https://t.co/KAVsvPi1FC https://t.co/NyRrA04ssW— Klaus K (@KlausKblog) April 2, 2020

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[bitt]

aha, but I did not intend to jest!! chocolate was also mentioned last week...

[Farcesensitive]

Chocolate does protect against covid.
Cocoa produces nitric oxide in the blood and that helps kill the virus.

[ichabod1]

That is extra strange when you consider every smoker has some degree of lung impairment. You would think they’d be the perfect candidate for death by so called long haul covick. I read a study that suggested MJ smokers have a similar immunity.